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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last year a few Negroes began to move into an all-white section of Philadelphia's East Germantown. A number of other houses in the district promptly went up for sale. Real-estate brokers-many of them Negroes-moved en masse into the general area, asking white families to list their homes. When some white families refused to give listings, the brokers couldn't believe that they wanted to stay where they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: A Lesson in Economics | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...with a wisp of brown hair sticking out from under the light blue veil of her habit, walking about alone in the streets of Madrid. What the nun told the mother superior, in a combination of French and halting Spanish, was almost equally surprising: she had come from Aix-en-Provence to establish the first house of her order, the Little Sisters of Jesus, in Spain. She asked the mother superior of the Casa de la Virgen for hospitality until she could find a place to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Little Sisters | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...losses in the gauntlet were roughly comparable, "but it all happened in one day." Except for the bravery of U.S. men & officers, only one redressing fact emerges from this harrowing story: the rout ended on Dec. 1. "By Christmas Day, 2nd Division was again a going concern, en route to a new battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Anatomy of Defeat | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian Quien en Quien. Detrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage provides excellent pictures of family crests' and advertisements of tea-biscuits...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: Romance and Reference | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...DeVoto '18, and Laurence McKinney '12 named two short stories and a poem, all of which appeared in the Advocate, as runners-up in the competition. Donald O. Stewart, Jr. '53 was cited for his story "Dennis Gray," and Walter Kaiser '54 of Bellevue, Ohio for his poem "Aix-en-Provence." For the first time, a Radcliffe girl was mentioned by the committee. Lily Emmet '54 earned the honor with her story "Friday Philharmonic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Halberstam Wins Dana Reed Prize | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

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